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Wikileaks cable says Abbas worked with Israel against Hamas
Oops. If people wanted to see something explosive from the Wikileaks cables stolen by Bradley Manning and released by Julian Assange, this will do: A U.S. cable leaked on Monday said Israel and...
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Marine Corps chief: I’ll lead the drive to integrate gay Marines
Duty. The Senate hearings on DADT established him as the military’s chief critic of repeal, with Newsweek speculating this past weekend that he might even resign over the new policy. That would have...
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Schwarzenegger: You know who’s pretty qualified to work for Obama? Me
He'll be back. We all knew it was coming and now here it is. I’m sure The One will be game, too: He’s hinted about bringing Schwarzenegger onto the team before, and now that the tax deal’s finally...
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Whoa: Republicans now saying privately that they expect START to pass?
Winning streak. I’m honestly surprised. McCain and Graham voted to proceed on the treaty last week but both sounded like they were leaning towards no on ratification over the weekend. That would have...
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Poll of eight states: Romney trails other major presidential contenders among...
Oh my. Actually, that’s overstating it slightly: He does okay in his pop’s home state of Michigan, and he manages to eke past Gingrich for third place in some metrics in Wisconsin, but in the other six...
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Meme of the day: Haley Barbour in hot water over race comments
Hmmm. Matt Yglesias was the first, I believe, to seize on the key passage from Barbour’s interview with the Weekly Standard, but the pipeline from lefty blogs to bigger media moves quickly and now...
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U.S. Director of National Intelligence on London terror arrests: Er, what...
Smart power. If you thought the gaffes in Diane Sawyer’s interview with our counterterror brain trust couldn’t get worse than “364 days a year,” skip ahead to 3:35 and brace yourself. It’s so bizarre...
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Shep Smith to Tom Coburn: I can’t believe you’re blocking this 9/11 health...
Crusade. Via Mediaite, I’m paraphrasing — but only a little. Shep’s emphatically in scold mode here, not only devoting a chunk of airtime to sympathetic video of 9/11 responders complaining about the...
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Huckabee on child nutrition: I must side with Michelle Obama over Sarah Palin
Oh my. Is the 2012 Republican presidential nomination going to come down to a debate over … how much ice cream kids should be eating? One can only hope, my friends, because that campaign would be...
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Quotes of the day
Numbers. “This is about as bad as it could get for Democrats, and as good as it could get for Republicans. The next GOP presidential candidate gets six free electoral votes from South Carolina, Texas,...
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Poll: Obamateurism of the Year, Flight 6
Removed. Now that we have the first semifinal flight set, it’s time to start picking the semifinalists for the second flight. Yesterday, readers picked Captain Kickass in a tight race against Obama’s...
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Final Q3 GDP estimate: 2.6%
Mediocre. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its final estimate of economic growth in the third quarter, revising it upward for the second time to 2.6% from an original estimate of 2.0% at the...
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WH to issue EO continuing indefinite detention at Gitmo
Petulance. After the flop in the Ahmed Ghailani trial and the bipartisan hostility towards moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to New York City for trials in federal court, the Obama administration has two...
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Video: Dem Rep wants borders to become an “irrelevancy”
"God willing." Look on the bright side. At least we have a Democrat talking about God in American policy. Of course, it’s Rep. Keith Ellison, who here prays for borders to become “irrelevant.” In this...
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WH reverses on Clapper, admits he wasn’t briefed on UK terror arrests
Competence. Immediately after James Clapper professed ignorance of the arrests in the UK of a dozen suspected terrorists during an ABC News interview, the Obama administration denied that Clapper...
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Obama, EPA to expand regulatory regime for climate change
Doubling down. After initially appearing to retreat in the face of the midterm onslaught, Barack Obama and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson have decided to pursue an end-run strategy to impose regulation...
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CIA launches Wikileaks Task Force
Otherwise known as ... Er … ROFLMAO: The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. Officially, the panel...
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Video: CBS airs mocking picture of Bush’s “Decision Points”
Layers of fact-checkers and editors. Actually, this one’s as humorous as it is embarrassing for CBS. Someone with an eagle eye at Newsday managed to capture this from CBS’ show Sunday during a segment...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Senator James Inhofe, Guy Benson
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we have a special treat for viewers — Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) joins us from Capitol Hill. We’ll talk with Senator Inhofe about the START treaty...
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Breaking: Deal reached on 9/11 responder health bill; Update: Coburn says...
Finale. The Wall Street Journal reports that a compromise deal has been cut on the proposal to establish a health-care fund for 9/11 first responders. The contentious issues of cost and perpetuation...
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